By that means the oration marks will be effectually collared, with scarce an effort.—­Yale Banger, Oct. 1848.

COLLECTION.  In the University of Oxford, a college examination, which takes place at the end of every term before the Warden and Tutor.

Read some Herodotus for Collections.—­The Etonian, Vol.  II. p. 348.

The College examinations, called collections, are strictly private.—­Bristed’s Five Years in an Eng.  Univ., Ed. 2d, p. 139.

COLLECTOR.  A Bachelor of Arts in the University of Oxford, who is appointed to superintend some scholastic proceedings in Lent.—­Todd.

The Collectors, who are two in number, Bachelors of Arts, are appointed to collect the names of determining bachelors, during Lent.  Their office begins and ends with that season.—­Guide to Oxford.

COLLECTORSHIP.  The office of a collector in the University of Oxford.—­Todd.

This Lent the collectors ceased from entertaining the Bachelors by advice and command of the proctors; so that now they got by their collectorships, whereas before they spent about 100_l._, besides their gains, on clothes or needless entertainments.—­Life of A. Wood, p. 286.

COLLEGE.  Latin, collegium; con and lego, to gather.  In its primary sense, a collection or assembly; hence, in a general sense, a collection, assemblage, or society of men, invested with certain powers and rights, performing certain duties, or engaged in some common employment or pursuit.

1.  An establishment or edifice appropriated to the use of students who are acquiring the languages and sciences.

2.  The society of persons engaged in the pursuits of literature, including the officers and students.  Societies of this kind are incorporated, and endowed with revenues.

“A college, in the modern sense of that word, was an institution which arose within a university, probably within that of Paris or of Oxford first, being intended either as a kind of boarding-school, or for the support of scholars destitute of means, who were here to live under particular supervision.  By degrees it became more and more the custom that teachers should be attached to these establishments.  And as they grew in favor, they were resorted to by persons of means, who paid for their board; and this to such a degree, that at one time the colleges included nearly all the members of the University of Paris.  In the English universities the colleges may have been first established by a master who gathered pupils around him, for whose board and instruction he provided.  He exercised them perhaps in logic and the other liberal arts, and repeated the university lectures, as well as superintended their morals.  As his scholars grew in number, he associated with himself other teachers, who thus acquired the name of fellows.